100 Million Green Facts You Didn’t Know About Junk Mail


	100 Million Green Facts You Didn’t Know About Junk Mail

Silkweaver

8-23-2008 8:20 AM

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environment, trees, junk mail

Silkweaver says:

Jim Ford, the report’s author, said: “Junk mail has implications for climate change that start in the forest, continue through paper production, printing and distribution, and end with recycling or landfilling.”

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8-25-2008 11:29 AM

Oortcloud

Unfortunately the slimeballs that smother us in junk mail already show a propensity for not caring.

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